Mail from Hammie!!!

We got a card at the weekend from Hammie!!!

He's on holiday in France!!!

He went to a town called Quimper!!! Thanks Hammie!

Beanie's Summer Trombola

 We're having a giveaway!  This one's a Cupcake

 This is a fridge magnet from Brussels, Belgium

 Fridge Magnet from London TAKEN

 Another fridge magnet from London, of the Millenium Wheel

Fridge magnet of a London taxi cab TAKEN

 Key ring with a Tweety bird!

Key ring with a dancing strawberry!!!

 Keyring with a London double decker bus TAKEN

 Keyring of a UK postbox

Key ring of an "I love London" trolley token TAKEN

Key ring of Big Ben. TAKEN

If anyone would like one of these, please leave a comment under this post!!!  I'll post out at the end of May, so you have a couple of weeks to sign up!!

Last Night was Eurovision Song Contest

And to celebrate, I had jelly and half melted (half price!) Ben and Jerry's Phish Food icecream

And there's more in the fridge for today too!!!

McPig Post!!!

We got a package today!!!

Oh wow!!  It was a book from my friend Sullivan in Holland!

It's a book called Embrace of the Damned!!!

And a lovely postcard too!!!  THanks Sullivan!

Movie Review - "Amadeus"

Movie review number 23

PLOT

This movie starts in Vienna in the 1700s at the living quarters of ex-Court Composer Señor Salieri who seems to be having nightmares. His servants end up breaking the door down to discover he's attempted suicide and rush him to the lunatic asylum. Salieri (played by F Murray Abraham) recovers and is visited by  young priest to take his confession. What follows is the story of Salieri's arrival in Vienna as the Court composer to Emporer Franz Joseph and the arrival of upstart Amadeus Mozart played wonderfully by Tom Hulce. If you've not seen this yet, you'll always remember That Laugh!!!!
The story then moves onto Mozart's arrival in Vienna, at a concert put on for The Chief Church Pontiff and shows how Mozart was "pinched" by the Emporer Franz's Royal Court and pissing off the Church in the process.  Mozart's Dad got pissed off as well, as Mozart got married without Dad's permission!!
The story goes on to Mozart's "clash" against Royalty in regards to what's allowed to be shown in Theatre and Opera, and how Mozart's operas got adapted into Vaudeville.
The story then darkens when Salieri comes up with a Cunning Plan to bring down Mozart after his father's death, and secretly commissions Mozart to write a death requim........ planning on killing Mozart in the process and taking the requiem and passing it off as his own, thus claiming to be as talented, nay more talented than "his dear friend, Mozart".
But will he pull it off......???

RECOMMENDED
Oh yes, it's brilliant!  Very sad ending though.

SCORE
10 squeaks out of 10!!

SCOOBY SNACKS
Nipples of Venus and a glass of Tokay wine.